The Madras High Court ordered Friday the Tamil Nadu government to develop an exigency plan to guarantee that the midday meal scheme at schools is not suspended in the case of future emergencies, such as the Covid-19 outbreak. The direction came in a writ petition underlining the need to begin door-to-door delivery of cooked nutritious [...]
The Hong Kong Legislative Council has voted to pass the Medical Registration (Amendment) Bill in an effort to curb the country’s medical workforce shortage. The bill passed with 39 ayes and one no, and the scheme aims to start by the third quarter of 2022. The bill is an amendment to Hong Kong’s Medical Registration Ordinance. [...]
Brazilian senators investigating the handling of the country’s COVID-19 outbreak filed their final report Wednesday on whether President Jair Bolsonaro is responsible for more than 300,000 COVID-19-related deaths in Brazil. The 1200-page report follows six months of investigations by an 11-member committee into the causes of Brazil’s outbreak. The Brazilian Senate inquiry was set to [...]
The Fifth Circuit granted on Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) request to voluntarily dismiss an appeal without determining whether the case was moot. Terkel v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stemmed from the CDC’s national eviction moratorium, which temporarily prohibited landlords from evicting tenants amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After a [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that the Cuban government “systematically engaged in arbitrary detention, ill-treatment of detainees, and abuse-ridden criminal prosecutions in response to peaceful anti-government protests in July 2021.” In July 2021, thousands of Cubans took to the streets in anti-government protests, motivated by dissatisfaction with the Cuban government’s handling of the economy, [...]
A Russian Court on Thursday imposed one year of restrictions on ophthalmologist Dr Anastasia Vasileya. The sanctions restrict her movements and require monthly mandatory checks with the Russian state supervisor. She is also disallowed from leaving Moscow or attending mass events such as protests or concerts. She was first introduced into the limelight after treating Opposition [...]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday issued a new executive order prohibiting any entity, including privately-owned businesses, from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers in the state. Abbott also called on other state lawmakers to sign a similar ban into law. Under the order, “o entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 [...]
Egypt’s public prosecution office announced Sunday that it had arrested three people in connection with the dumping of thousands of COVID-19 vaccines along a water channel. More than 18,000 vaccine packages, originally bound for the city of Minya, south of Cairo, went missing. An additional 5,000 packages were lost because they had been stored at the [...]
The Supreme Court of India ruled Friday that if the fundamental right to education under “Article 21A of the Constitution has to become a reality,” then the needs of underprivileged children “to receive adequate access to online education cannot be denied.” The court passed the order while issuing notice in a special leave petition against [...]
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted 11-2 to pass a new ordinance that will require “proof of full vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine to enter recreational locations and events within the City.” The Council expressed concern over unimpressive vaccination rates around the city. In some areas of Los Angeles, like Hancock Park, 76 [...]
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